Steve Doocy says the children are not in cages. Not cages. He grew up on a farm, so it is just buildings with walls made out of chain link. Stephen Colbert noted that while the rest of us saw children put in cages like zoo animals, Doocy sees children treated like farm animals.
Laura Ingraham says it is like sending kids to summer camp. Puh leeze. I don’t remember any summer camp where kids were put in cages (or buildings with chain link walls) and all contact with parents (who don’t even know where they are) forbidden.
And Ann Coulter says these are “child crisis actors.” Yep. Every time young people reveal uncomfortable truths about TrumpubliKKKON atrocities, they are “crisis actors.”
If those those three-year-olds and six-year-olds are “crisis actors,” they are the most talented actors I’ve ever seen. Usually small children are very difficult to work with. The talent is so authentic! And always on the first take! That extraordinary talent alone should qualify them for EB-1 visas (for those with exceptional special skills — you know, the same kind Melania used to enter the USA with).
This can never be justified, by any one. What’s even more amazing is that Trump is getting away with doing this. Edmund Burke said it best: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
When the President of the United States of America feels he has the right to kidnap innocent children and hold them hostage, we can no longer call ourselves the land of the free and the home of the brave.
The Obama administration built two Family facilities in Texas so that families did not have to be split up while they waited for an asylum hearing. If they were together as a family that gave them expedited treatment in the courts system so that their status could be settled quickly. By The way you right wingers called this an internment camp for NRA members but that is another issue of your crazy disease. Separating families removes them from the expedited category, meaning that their status will languish in the courts for years. Holding minor children is costing us about $600 per day per child. I’m sure that money is being fed to some GOP businessman with connections. Jeff session himself has stated that this is an attempt to discourage people from crossing the border. The crimes of the parents will be paid for by the children.
No matter how often the message is massaged, JoanSimpson is still lying.
“Donald Trump is enforcing an immigration law that President Bush signed into law in 1997, the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008.”.
Wow, what a mishmash. Bush was not president in 1997, Clinton was. There was no law in 1997, it was the Flores v Reno settlement (as JS notes further down in the comment).
Snopes: “However, neither the 1997 Flores settlement nor a 2008 human trafficking law cited in that release in any way stipulated that the government separate children from their parents:”
I wonder how people who eagerly consume the kind of stuff JS spews manage to keep from wondering why this separation of children hasn’t been going full force since 1997.
P.S. The Snopes page is https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/was-law-separate-families-passed-1997/
You do something on purpose to shock the people who live in your country and then they get traumatized and inured and conditioned for you to move into deeper shocking territory, its in Hitler’s playbook.
The images of chainlink fence within a building is a very temporary holding site. The children are rapidly moved to decent facilities with regular beds, medical care, good food, age appropriate activities, education, exercise, etc, etc, etc.
This fact is going largely unreported except during live interviews and panel discussions that catch the broadcaster by surprise.
80% of the minors in care centers arrived unaccompanied. Families who arrive a legal ports of entry and go through the legal process seeking asylum are not incarcerated. Only those who cross illegally are arrested. Asylum requests have increased by 1000% in the last few years, yet there has been no appreciable change in conditions in Central America (origin of most asylum seekers). Families are arriving with actual printed scripts of how to respond to asylum questions.
These facts are going largely unreported except during live interviews and panel discussions that catch the broadcaster by surprise.
Regardless of your position or opinion of why the administration is doing this, you should be appalled at the extremes to which the media is going to manipulate the facts surrounding this issue. The comparisons to concentration camps, the selection process and other Nazi references is absurd, grotesque and absolutely without ANY basis in fact.
For the fools on the left who are lapping this up like a dog returning to vomit there is no hope. They WANT this picture of evil to be true. Their hatred of Trump, of conservatives, of the GOP, drives all rational thought from their minds. To paraphrase Melvin Udall, “I think of a conservative and I take away reason and accountability.”
Folks in the center need to wake up and do your research. The root causes to this situation are anything but simple, the solutions are anything but simple and the problem is coming to a head because of the increased abuse of our asylum system. Don’t knee jerk.
@andylit your post is is absurd, grotesque and absolutely without ANY basis in fact. Your are either making all of this up, or just spewing the venom that the alt-right media fed you. Wake up, read up on some real, independent research and do some thinking on your own. No child should be treated like this, anywhere, and these have already undergone so much trauma. Ours is a nation of immigrants and our ancestors came here seeking a better life. For once, show some humanity. Don’t be a jerk.
As people see this shocking behavior by the Republicans, one may be reminded this is how the Holocaust started. But you would be wrong – they were well into the Holocaust before they started separating children from their families. GOP policies are getting harder to discern from Nazi policy, but they can always find a sympathetic bigot to explain why putting children in cages isn’t really so bad (for him, at least)
DD Wiz Premium Member almost 6 years ago
On Faux “News” —
Steve Doocy says the children are not in cages. Not cages. He grew up on a farm, so it is just buildings with walls made out of chain link. Stephen Colbert noted that while the rest of us saw children put in cages like zoo animals, Doocy sees children treated like farm animals.
Laura Ingraham says it is like sending kids to summer camp. Puh leeze. I don’t remember any summer camp where kids were put in cages (or buildings with chain link walls) and all contact with parents (who don’t even know where they are) forbidden.
And Ann Coulter says these are “child crisis actors.” Yep. Every time young people reveal uncomfortable truths about TrumpubliKKKON atrocities, they are “crisis actors.”
If those those three-year-olds and six-year-olds are “crisis actors,” they are the most talented actors I’ve ever seen. Usually small children are very difficult to work with. The talent is so authentic! And always on the first take! That extraordinary talent alone should qualify them for EB-1 visas (for those with exceptional special skills — you know, the same kind Melania used to enter the USA with).
Dtroutma almost 6 years ago
There IS a difference between kids sent over, and those taken from their parents HERE.
srdowns almost 6 years ago
This can never be justified, by any one. What’s even more amazing is that Trump is getting away with doing this. Edmund Burke said it best: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Walrus Gumbo Premium Member almost 6 years ago
When the President of the United States of America feels he has the right to kidnap innocent children and hold them hostage, we can no longer call ourselves the land of the free and the home of the brave.
hermit48 almost 6 years ago
Families were kept together in the WW2 internment camps. So this is worse.
Ontman almost 6 years ago
What is Trump’s next step? Putting the kids to work in the fields, you know, ‘to help our great American farmers’?
Masterskrain Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Trump has made me ashamed to be an American. And my flag STAYS LIKE THIS until he is Impeached, removed, or snuffed!
smaughazard almost 6 years ago
Does JS have an echo chamber button to make all of its cut-and-paste comments?
JHayes almost 6 years ago
The Obama administration built two Family facilities in Texas so that families did not have to be split up while they waited for an asylum hearing. If they were together as a family that gave them expedited treatment in the courts system so that their status could be settled quickly. By The way you right wingers called this an internment camp for NRA members but that is another issue of your crazy disease. Separating families removes them from the expedited category, meaning that their status will languish in the courts for years. Holding minor children is costing us about $600 per day per child. I’m sure that money is being fed to some GOP businessman with connections. Jeff session himself has stated that this is an attempt to discourage people from crossing the border. The crimes of the parents will be paid for by the children.
Cerabooge almost 6 years ago
No matter how often the message is massaged, JoanSimpson is still lying.
“Donald Trump is enforcing an immigration law that President Bush signed into law in 1997, the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008.”.
Wow, what a mishmash. Bush was not president in 1997, Clinton was. There was no law in 1997, it was the Flores v Reno settlement (as JS notes further down in the comment).
Snopes: “However, neither the 1997 Flores settlement nor a 2008 human trafficking law cited in that release in any way stipulated that the government separate children from their parents:”
I wonder how people who eagerly consume the kind of stuff JS spews manage to keep from wondering why this separation of children hasn’t been going full force since 1997.
P.S. The Snopes page is https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/was-law-separate-families-passed-1997/
Radish the wordsmith almost 6 years ago
Toxic Trump is locking up children on purpose, he thinks the publicity is help ing his callous base.
Radish the wordsmith almost 6 years ago
You do something on purpose to shock the people who live in your country and then they get traumatized and inured and conditioned for you to move into deeper shocking territory, its in Hitler’s playbook.
Radish the wordsmith almost 6 years ago
Flip flopper Trump flipped on his flop. What a gutless wonder.
Andylit Premium Member almost 6 years ago
The images of chainlink fence within a building is a very temporary holding site. The children are rapidly moved to decent facilities with regular beds, medical care, good food, age appropriate activities, education, exercise, etc, etc, etc.
This fact is going largely unreported except during live interviews and panel discussions that catch the broadcaster by surprise.
80% of the minors in care centers arrived unaccompanied. Families who arrive a legal ports of entry and go through the legal process seeking asylum are not incarcerated. Only those who cross illegally are arrested. Asylum requests have increased by 1000% in the last few years, yet there has been no appreciable change in conditions in Central America (origin of most asylum seekers). Families are arriving with actual printed scripts of how to respond to asylum questions.
These facts are going largely unreported except during live interviews and panel discussions that catch the broadcaster by surprise.
Regardless of your position or opinion of why the administration is doing this, you should be appalled at the extremes to which the media is going to manipulate the facts surrounding this issue. The comparisons to concentration camps, the selection process and other Nazi references is absurd, grotesque and absolutely without ANY basis in fact.
For the fools on the left who are lapping this up like a dog returning to vomit there is no hope. They WANT this picture of evil to be true. Their hatred of Trump, of conservatives, of the GOP, drives all rational thought from their minds. To paraphrase Melvin Udall, “I think of a conservative and I take away reason and accountability.”
Folks in the center need to wake up and do your research. The root causes to this situation are anything but simple, the solutions are anything but simple and the problem is coming to a head because of the increased abuse of our asylum system. Don’t knee jerk.
shakeswilly almost 6 years ago
@andylit your post is is absurd, grotesque and absolutely without ANY basis in fact. Your are either making all of this up, or just spewing the venom that the alt-right media fed you. Wake up, read up on some real, independent research and do some thinking on your own. No child should be treated like this, anywhere, and these have already undergone so much trauma. Ours is a nation of immigrants and our ancestors came here seeking a better life. For once, show some humanity. Don’t be a jerk.
Mr. Blawt almost 6 years ago
As people see this shocking behavior by the Republicans, one may be reminded this is how the Holocaust started. But you would be wrong – they were well into the Holocaust before they started separating children from their families. GOP policies are getting harder to discern from Nazi policy, but they can always find a sympathetic bigot to explain why putting children in cages isn’t really so bad (for him, at least)